The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen / Joe Bray

Author:: Bray, Joe
Published:: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description:: viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm.

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Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 5

Contents:

Introduction: texts, bodies, readers -- "The easy communication of sentiments": Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the complications of sympathy -- "Reading responsive emotions": memoirs of Emma Courtney and memoirs of modern philosophers -- Elizabeth Inchbald: "reading as a critic, or rather as an author" -- Comparing "likeness" with "likeness": Belinda and the portrait -- "absorbed attention": Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price.

Subject(s):

English prose literature—18th century—History and criticism
Women—Books and reading—Great Britain—History—18th century
English prose literature—19th century—History and criticism
Women—Books and reading—Great Britain—History—19th century
Women and literature—Great Britain—History—18th century
Women and literature—Great Britain—History—19th century
Authors and readers—Great Britain—History—18th century
Authors and readers—Great Britain—History—19th century
Literature and society—Great Britain—History—18th century
Literature and society—Great Britain—History—19th century

ISBN:

9780415396011
9780203888674
0415396018
0203888677

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index.

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